a poem for yellow silk
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A Poem for Yellow SilkAuthor(s): Catherine WagnerSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter, 1998), p. 95Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154642 .
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A Poem for National Geographic
The Wallace Stevens investigation X'ed out his lungs Hu?Huh?Huh
Cl?ck?his whole throat sealed up The dam busted, it was like Vladimir with a sword
His Highlander calves clenched
As if beanbags were sewn in
His tongue sweated
A little rainy-foggy, nice and moist
The definite plasma spun off
Huh?hh?hulp?huh
A Poem for Yellow Silk
Danish pastry
Squiggled with white Erin Soma, she called herself
Her day was a sucked egg and I painted its insides
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